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We start this video in Bayeux France on the 25th Nov 2017 with a visit to the Bayeux Cathedral, then driving out towards the Normandy coast to take in some of the history & sights of the WW2 D-Day landings. Our first stop was La Cambe which is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km north east of Bayeux. It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains over 21,200 German military personnel. Driving down to the coast we arrive in Grandcamp-Maisy which is a coastal village harbour & La Pointe du Hoc which is a promontory with a 100-foot cliff overlooking the English Channel. Halfway between Omaha Beach and Utah Beach, the Pointe du Hoc dominates the sea from its vertical cliff.
With this video I recommend that you pause at the different dedication signs to learn more of the history of this area.
Then a visit to Omaha, commonly known as Omaha Beach, it was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France
We then drive to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, that honours the American soldiers. Total burials‎: ‎9,388 Commemorated‎: ‎1,557 Unknowns‎: ‎307.
It was quite a moving day as we explored this area with so many lives lost. Here, in the midst of the D-Day beaches, you still get a strong sense of the huge effort involved in the Allied invasion to liberate France and the rest of Western Europe
The next day we set off to Mulberry artificial harbour near Arromanches, During the Normandy Invasion of World War II, it was part of the Gold Beach landing area and was taken by the British 50th Division on D-Day (June 6, 1944).